wakanda

If he'd been Sioux, he'd have called it "wakanda."

Week 22: Fried Douglas Wolk 2006

If he'd been Sioux, he'd have called it "wakanda."

Archive 2006-10-01 Douglas Wolk 2006

So the wakanda gave the child back to them; homeward they went with him.

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains Unknown

But it was another wakanda who took her, and he promised to give her back if they would give him four white-haired dogs.

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains Unknown

On the whole, it may be safe to consider the sun as the Siouan arch-mystery, with the mythic thunder-bird or family of thunder-birds as a sort of mediate link between the mysteries and men, possessing less power but displaying more activity in human affairs than the remoter wakanda of the heavens.

The Siouan Indians 1882

Thus, among many of the tribes the sun is wakanda — not _the_ wakanda or _a_ wakanda, but simply wakanda; and among the same tribes the moon is wakanda, and so is thunder, lightning, the stars, the winds, the cedar, and various other things; even

The Siouan Indians 1882

In like manner many natural objects and places of striking character were considered wakanda.

The Siouan Indians 1882

As used by the Siouan Indian, wakanda vaguely connotes also

The Siouan Indians 1882

So, too, the fetiches and the ceremonial objects and decorations were wakanda among different tribes.

The Siouan Indians 1882

The moon was wakanda among the Osage and the stars among the Omaha and Ponka, yet they seem to have occupied subordinate positions; the winds and the four quarters were apparently given higher rank; and, in individual cases, the mythic water-monsters or earth-deities seem to have occupied leading positions.

The Siouan Indians 1882